Hi, I'm writing this post to ask for Lemmites for their knoweledge about a graphic novel I'm looking for. I've read the GN over 20 years ago as a teen, so my recollections about it are vague, though I remember that it was great and I've been trying to find it for the last 10 years, every now and then.
Here's what I remember about it:
Art style:
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It might be originally French or Belgian, but I'm not 100% about that.
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I think it was black and white / inked, but again, not 100% about that.
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Fairly realistic style of illustration, but set in a fantasy world with fantastical designs.
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No idea about the release date, but I read it in the late 1990's/early 2000's. It was in english or finnish, though I'm almost 100% it was in english.
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For adults with graphic violence, nudity, sex, etc.
The World:
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A dark fantasy world with slavery, war, rape etc.
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Different races. The main character was of a hobbit like race, with big ears, if I recall correctly. There were also a race of hairy, troll-like creatures that were used as beasts of war. I think there also were some modern human like creatures.
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Many kinds of different fantastical beasts.
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I think there was a war or conflict raging between different evil coded factions, factions having different themes to them (I think).
The Story/scenes from it:
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Main character is thrust into the wider world unto a Heroes Journey, maybe due to a kidnapping of a loved one, but I think there were also some Jesus the Redeemer -like quality or theme to the ending of the story. I'm not sure about the last one.
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A scene where the main character meets a witch and the witch has him turned into a black african male muscle hunk, to fuck him.
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A scene where the main character is carried unto a court of some decadent ruler.
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A scene where the main character befriends one of the hairy war beasts by removing a collar from it.
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In the end, the world is destroyed due to a great cataclysm, but some races survive due to being underground. Later they emerge unto a changed world and its implied that they are the ancestors of Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalis.
I've tried using different search engines to find them, but havent had any luck. I'm fairly certain its not by Moebius or Jorodowsky, though I guess the setting is something what Jorodowsky could have written. Alef-Thau has been suggested to me earlier, but its not that. I just read it couple of days ago.
Please lemmites, you're my only hope.
Yeah, I'm finnish. I suppose I could share some Finnish comics/graphic novels - the scene is actually quite strong here, but sadly people mostly create it finnish. I'll create a post tomorrow.
Great! ^^